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Originally Posted by Penforhire
Perhaps you missed the point that biometrics is a convenience technique and an alternative, not a replacement, for passwords? When authentication is more convenient it becomes less onerous to apply DRM, for example whenever you power up your e-reader. We can continue to argue the merit of DRM itself. I don't like it but I'd rather have a biometric entry into my DRM material than not have one.
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No, it was being offered as a replacement, as user-based rather than device-based DRM. Steve was suggesting a fingerprint check instead of the current PID-based encryption for DRM'd ebooks.
Your laptop is fingerprint-locked for your benefit; ebooks are DRM'd for the seller's benefit. You have the choice of handing your password to anyone you feel comfortable accessing your laptop. They don't want to switch to a password-opens-this-book method; that allows more sharing than they want to allow.